Patents by Inventor Michael Nightingale

Michael Nightingale has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20210150421
    Abstract: A dynamic queue management system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code. The hardware processor executes the software code to receive queue enrollment data identifying a first guest and a first attraction, determine whether the first guest is enrolled in a second queue for a second attraction, and assign the first guest to one of multiple groups seeking admission to the first attraction based on whether the first guest is enrolled in the second queue. The software code further obtains a current occupancy state of the first attraction, determines an attendance period corresponding to an average duration of attendance at the first attraction by previous guests, and identifies one of the groups for admission to the first attraction based on the number of guests in the group, the current occupancy state of the first attraction, and the attendance period of the attraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Seth Abbe, Michael Nightingale, Todd Graham, Alexander Logan Meyer, Joshua Caleb Umstead, Robert Todd Ogrin, Paul David Fisher, Zulekha Banu Flexwala, Jason Daniel Smith, Brandon J. Pastuszek, Ramkrish Raja, Amy Elizabeth Nelson
  • Patent number: 8782263
    Abstract: A single client session may be managed such that two or more virtual instances are presented without regard to technologies of the different virtual instances. Individual ones of the two or more virtual instances may be of a virtual environment or a virtual space. A first virtual instance may be loaded into the client session responsive to a user being authenticated for the first virtual instance based on received authentication information. A second virtual instance may then be loaded into the client session responsive to the user being authenticated for the second virtual instance based on the same received authentication information. Information associated with the user, information associated with a user character controlled by the user, and/or other instance services may be provided to the first virtual instance and/or the second virtual instance. Individual ones of the virtual instances may be monitored for a runtime error and/or memory abuse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Nightingale, Bob Hickman, Jackson Barrett Dunstan